Improvement in halter-buckles



u GKLE PATENTED JUL 18 1871 PATENT OEEICE.

PHILIP A. SNYDER, OF BUTLERVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HALTER-BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,214, dated July 18,1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP A. SNYDER, of Butlerville, in the county ofWarren and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvementin Halter-Buckles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and eX- act description ofthe construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawing is a face view of my invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective representationof buckle as applied.

This invention has relation to an improvement in halter-buckles; and thenovelty consists in the construction of the frame of a triple buckle andthe mode of arranging the tongues, as hereinafter described; the objectbeing to provide a means of securely attaching the ends ofthe straps tothe buckle without sewing or riveting, and in such a manner as todispose of the superiiuous leather and keep it from clogging up thebucklespaces or chang the horse.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating this invention the buckle-frameis represented with three wings, lettered respectively A B C, and soarranged as to form a resemblance to the letter T. Each win g isprovided with three cross-bars, a b c, of which b projects like a loopand holds a tongue, d, the point of which rests on the crossbar a, sothat it will be seen that in relation to the form of the buckle-frameall the tongues point inwardly. The straps are attached to the differentWings of the buckle by passing their ends through the spaces between thebars b and c, thence over and around bars a, then placed on the tonguesand over the bars b, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. To eachhalter there are four of these buckles, two on either side. To the lowerbuckles are attached the ends of the cheek-piece, nose-piece, andchin-piece. To the upper buckles are attached the ends ofthe crownpiece,throat-piece, and cheek-piece. The positions ofthe buckles are shown inFig. 3.

I am aware that there is no novelty in a triple buckle of itself, assuch has been made, but with the tongues pointing outward, whicharrangement is a disadvantage, inasmuch as the strain rests on thetongue and consequently the strap is liable to come loose or be slit.Again, in buckling three straps to such a buckle, the ends, if insertedin the central space, come together in an unsightly and inconvenientbunch. The principal feature of my improved buckle as distinguished fromthe above is in providing each wing with an additional cross-bar andhanging on it the tongue with its point extending inwardly, so thatwhile the straps are buckled securely much of the strain is thrown onthe cross-bars, and provision made for disposing of the superfluousleather in the manner clearly described.

I claim as my invention- The halter-buckle herein described, composed ofthe three wings A B C, with cross-bars a b c and tongues, all arrangedsubstantially as specied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP A. SNYDER.

Vitnesses THORNTON THOMPSON, PETER DOUGHMAN.

